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Tawakul Karman – Nobel Prize Winner From Yemen

Since being named a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Karman has travelled from Doha to Washington, DC, to generate international pressure on the government of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh:

“I am here to tell the whole world, to tell the people who believe in freedom, my people in Yemen sleep in the street since nine months, this great people deserve freedom. This is the thing that I will tell people here. Also I want to tell people in Sana’a that you are not alone, there are people here who care about your freedom and their role starts now.”

(Image: Tawakkol Karman, Nobel Peace Prize co-winner 2011, addresses a crowd outside the UN office in New York. (Photo: Ali Abbas))